OFFICE: C-007
PHONE: +385 1 4092 133
E-MAIL: tbukovcan@ffzg.hr
COURSES:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (holder of the course/lecturer)
Introduction to Visual Anthropology (holder of the course/lecturer)
Anthropology of Medical Systems (holder of the course/lecturer)
Anthropology of Body (postgraduate course) (holder of the course/lecturer)
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Tanja Bukovčan was born in 1975 in Zagreb and attended primary and secondary school. Between 1991 and 1993, she obtained an International Baccalaureate diploma. In 2001, she graduated with a degree in English language and literature and ethnology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Since 2003, she has worked as a research assistant on a project led by Dr. Tihana Petrović Leš from the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. From 2007, she collaborated on another project under the direction of Dr. Branko Đaković at the same department. She was also involved in an international research project at York University, Canada. In December 2008, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled Ethnological Research of Medical Systems: Medical Pluralism in Croatia at the University of Zagreb.
Her postdoctoral research focused on new methodologies in medical anthropology, which she conducted in 2010 at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK, as a recipient of a full scholarship from the university.
She is currently an associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her main areas of research interest are medical and visual anthropology. Additionally, she has taught courses in cultural anthropology and specific topics in medical anthropology at the Faculty of Textile Technology and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb. During the winter semester of the 2020/2021 academic year, she taught the course Medical Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana.
In the 2012/2013 academic year, she was elected head of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, and in 2013/2014, she became vice dean for teaching and student affairs at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In 2016, she was a member of the Senate of the University of Zagreb and the Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities. From the 2016/2017 academic year until 2019, she again served as vice dean for teaching and student affairs. Since 2017, she has been a full member of the Scientific Council for Anthropological Research of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU).
She has participated in over 20 international scientific conferences and has been an organizer of conferences with international participation. She has also served on the scientific committees of international congresses, the largest of which was the 2021 annual congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). As a jury president/member, selector, or roundtable moderator, she has participated in numerous ethnographic film festivals in Croatia and abroad (Rovinj, Belgrade, Đakovo, Ljubljana, Kratovo).
For the publishing house Algoritam, she translated one of the most significant theoretical anthropology books of the 20th century, Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas.
Since much of her academic work focuses on applied anthropology, she is also dedicated to science popularization and frequently participates in various news and informational programs discussing topics related to her research interests.
She is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), and the Croatian Ethnological Society.
PUBLISHED WORK
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